Stress, Strain, Young’s Modulus

1. A 300 kg block hangs on a 2m long aluminum cylindrical rod with a dimeter of 0.5 cm. The elastic modulus of aluminum is 70 x 109 N/m2. (a)
What is the change in length of the rod? (b) What is the new length of the rod? (c) Calculate the tensile strain of the rod. (d) How much tensile
stress is applied to the rod.

2. A 5000 kg block rests on a column of concrete (Y= 20 x 109 N/m2) with a diameter of 10cm. (a) What is the compressive stress applied to the
column? (b) Calculate the compressive strain of the column (c) if the ultimate comprehessive strenght of the concrte column is 20 x 106 N/m2,
what is the maximum force that can be applied to the column without it breaking? (d) what is the maximum mass that the column can support?

3. A cube with a side length of 10cm is made up of aluminum metal (G= 25 x 109 N/m2) A horizontal shear force of 50.000 N is applied to this
cube. (a) How far will the top of the cube move in the horizontal directin relative to the bottom of the cube? (b) What is the shear stress appied
to the cube? (c) Calculate the shear strain on the cube.

Liquid Pressure

4. A 15kg rectangular block with a length of 70cm and a width of 40cm rests on a table. What pressure does the book exert on the table?

5. A closed rectangular container with dimensions 4m x 5m x 6m is filled with water. What is the pressure exerted by the water on the bottom
face of the container?

6. A closed cylindrical container is filled with a fluid that has specific gravity of 1.7. What is the pressure exerted by this fluid at a depth of 15m?

Pascal’s Principle

7. A downward force of 100N is applied to the small piston with a diameter of 59cm in the hydraulic lift system show below. (a) What is the
upward force exerted by the large piston with a diameter of 2m? (b) What is the mechanical advantage of this hydraulic lift? (c) If the input
force of 100N pushes piston down by 2m, how high will the large piston rise?

8. A 1500 kg car is placed on the large piston with a radius of 4m. (a) What is the min upward force that the large piston must exert to lift the
car? (b) If the mechanical advantage of the hydraulic lift system is 20, what is the min downward force that should be applied to lift the car? (c)
What is the radius of the small piston? (d) What is the pressure exerted by the large piston? (e) How far should the small piston descend in
order to lift the car by 2m?

Archimedes’ Principle

9. A 10kg block of aluminium (𝜌=2700 kg/m3) is attached to a rope. (a) What is the tension force in the rope if the block is in a vacuum? (b)
What is the tension force if the block is in water (𝜌 =1000 kg/m3)? (c) What is the tension force if the block is in air (𝜌 =1.29 kg/m3 ) ?

10. An iceberg (𝜌 =917 kg/m3) floats in seawater (𝜌 =1025 kg/m3). (a) What fraction of the iceberg is beneath the surface of the water (b) What
fraction of the iceberg is above the surface of the water?

11. A metal block floats in a liquid mercury (𝜌 =13,600 kg/m3), If 70% of the block is submerged in the fluid, what is the density of the metal?
Bernoulli’s Principle

12. Case 1

13. Case 2

14. Case 3: